The multitude will _never_ be humanized.

Civilization is attainable only by the few; nature so ordains it." "Pardon me for saying that is a lie! I use the word controversially." "It is a manifest truth!" cried the other.

"Who ever doubted it but a _Dummkopf_?
I use the word with reference to this argument only." So it went on for a long time.

Mallard and Elgar knew no German, so could derive neither pleasure nor profit from the high debate.
"Are you as glum here as in London ?" Reuben asked of his companion, in a bantering voice.

"I should have pictured you grandly jovial, wreathed perhaps with ruddy vine-leaves, the light of inspiration in your eye, and in your hand a mantling goblet! Drink, man, drink! you need a stimulant, an exhilarant, an anti-phlegmatic, a counter-irritant against English spleen.